The Vervoid Thread

[Andrew Curnow]

Sooner or later we're going to need this thread to discuss updates - is your PC still defunct, Lissa?

[Lissa]

It's still elsewhere - it went in for repair on Monday and they haven't called yet. I can't do anything useful on this Mac so we're still wherever we were last weekend.

On the plus side (maybe), I did upload chapter four of Flash Gordon before it all went pears up.

[Jonno]

Is it best for us to avoid sending you stuff in the short term, Lissa, so as to avoid clogging up your inbox? Though I'm afraid I've been patchy with my own submissions of late, even moreso now that I have less time on my hands!

[Lissa]

On the contrary - the more stuff I have, the easier it will be to get the site up and running again. If all goes to plan I'll be doing daily updates in December while a currently unwritten serial meanders along so having lots of other stuff to run alongside it would be an enormous boon (and, as Stephen Fry would say, we're always on the lookout for enormous boons).

[Rob McCow]

I'll let Si know. He's really enjoying writing about The Web at the moment!

I've written a 2,000 word synopsis of Tides of Time. That was clearly a mistake! I'll cut it down to a readable amount

[Andrew Curnow]

The Tides of Time is awesome, although when it originally came out our newsagents bizarrely stopped stocking DWM after issue 61. It was years before I actually read the whole thing, rather than just the first and last instalments.

[Captain Tancredi]

The first DWM I ever saw was 65 if I remember aright (Mind of Evil archive) so clearly there was this big epic story going on of which I only caught the tail end.

And seeing as one of my goals going forward is to be writing 5000 words a week (not all for Lissa, you'll all be pleased to know!) there should be one or two extras going in there as well.

[SiHart]

Oh I really, really must finish off writing about The Web. Soon! Servalan's on her way- I need that boost!

Si xx

[The Secretive Bus]

'Fraid you won't be seeing any articles from my goodly self for a while; my laptop recently contracted a virus that corrupted the harddrive. All files and documents inaccessible and/or corrupted (nothing the chaps at the repair place can do about it, a 60 professional opinion there) so I'm going to have to reinstall everything, wiping the harddrive. I've lost all my scripts, sketches, articles, photos, movies and a fair bit more besides, and that includes all my Vervoid stuff. Ho hum.

It also wiped a coursework essay I was on the verge of finishing, so spent most of yesterday retyping it...

[Rob McCow]

Oh no Dave - what an absolute nightmare! I found it frustrating when I deleted one of my reviews, I can't imagine what it would be like to lose the lot So we're going to have to wait ages for more Gerry Anderson action?

That's another person losing all their data - I think I might do a big back-up tonight.

[The Secretive Bus]

I'd written up most of the Thunderbirds episode 3 article, and the next D Price one, but, yeah, won't be able to do any articles for a while. Before it was just time constraints so it's irritating that, now that the semester's finished and I've got loads of spare time until I go home, I can't do any articles (as I can't even watch DVDs on the laptop until I reinstall everything).

[Si Hunt]

I can't remember what I've sent you now Lissa, but I think it's more or less "one of everything", and two "Torchwood"'s of course.

Si.

[Lissa]

Going from flagged emails I have -

Torchwood 5
Torchwood 6
Aural Adventurers - "Auld Mortality"
He Man - "Curse of the Spellstone"
Only Fools - "The Sky's the Limit"

[Si Hunt]

That sounds about right!

Si.

[Andrew Curnow]

I hope Lissa gets the might Verve back up and running soon. A December without Brenty-Four doesn't bear thinking about.

[Lissa]

It came dangerously close to cancellation but some things never go away. In a (hopefully temporary) low-tech format strangely befitting its star we have chapter one of this year's tale. I would've posted it directly on PS but the language filter might object to the odd bit or piece.

[Dave Lewis]

Indeed, Dennis Brent, I am sure many of the local people would happily urinate on you were they to find you on fire. Though obviously they would take care not to extinguish the flames whilst doing so.

Splendid stuff.

[Paul Clement]

I laughed out loud at that bit.

[Andrew Curnow]

The bit about the pot plant is my favourite!

Ah, now I know Christmas is on the way - richly comic, Ms Levesque!

[Lissa]

It wouldn't be the second day of December without chapter two of what is already being described as 'a serial that has peaked too early'.

[Andrew Curnow]

(and a quick physical inspection demonstrated that it was)

What I could do with is an emoticon for 'spitting out coffee in sudden laughter'.

[Dave Lewis]

I admit weve crossed swords over your strange and unworkable ideas about charity and the meek but Im prepared to let bygones be bygones.

More splendid stuff - with the bonus excitement of the first appearance of Ian Devine... he is Hattie Jacques to Dennis' Eric Sykes. Possibly.

[Lissa]

What will happen when the biggest reunion since East and West Germany takes place in a dusty written records archive? Chapter Three will try to explain.

[Lissa]

Four down, twenty to go.

[Lissa]

Dennis is a free man but what will he do with his new found liberty? Chapters five and six will go some way to explaining.